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LOCAL NEWS WEATHER EDITORIAL PAGES I I II ii Diego County MONDAY Cos Angeles Stimes NOVEMBER 20. 1989 CCt Brodericks' Friends See Fault on Both Sides of Feud HIGHLIGHTS Sa Slayings: Antagonism grew rather than declined after the divorce that split the affluent lawyer and his anguished ex-wife. During the two weeks since Elisabeth Anne (Betty) Broderick was arrested and accused of killing her ex-husband, 44, and his 28-year-old bride, Linda, those closest to the family have struggled to make sense of the slayings. Especially for those who traveled in the same well-heeled circles as Dan, Betty and Linda, the Broderick case has become a prism through which to examine their own lives. At a recent La Jolla cocktail party, for example, two simultaneous conversations focused on the Broderick slayings.

In one corner, a few married couples in their 40s swapped tales of the Brodericks' messy breakup, including one story that Betty's friends later confirmed: after the divorce, Dan repeatedly refused to return Betty's family china, even when she appeared at the door to beg. In the kitchen, another group of couples gathered this one mostly men with their second, "ounger wives. The Broderick case clearly made them uncomfortable. "I guess this is Be Nice to the Ex-Wife Week," one man said with a nervous laugh. Another La Jolla resident was moved enough by the case to write a letter this week to the editor of the San Diego Union.

"The recent Broderick tragedy has brought to mind the chilling reality of divorce 1980s style," Sally Foster wrote. "The inequities in court proceedings and financial settlements are a reality that are rarely believed or understood except by the women who experience them. Isn't it time we take a good look at our courts and our system of divorce?" The Broderick case's ability to provoke such opposing responses does not surprise the friends of either the victims or the accused. From the moment Dan and Betty separated in 1985, friends said this week, they never again saw even the simplest things in the same way. Dan said Betty tormented him.

Betty said the same about Dan. Both said they wanted the battles and Please see BRODERICK, B5 BRODERICK TRAGEDY: There were faults on both sides in the antagonism between affluent lawyer Daniel T. Broderick and his ex-wife, according to friends. Bl OVERPAYMENT ASSAILED: Federal officials said that during a two-year period the San Diego Housing Authority overpaid Section 8 utility allowances by $1.2 million. Officials said the money should have been spent on other programs for the poor.

Bl FAR-FLUNG DIGS: San Diego archeologists, weak in number but strong in reputation, have begun to attract attention for unearthing the sometimes unlikely remains of lost civilizations around the world. Bl iel T. Broderick III, his remarriage to a younger woman, her unsuccessful battle to gain custody of her four children and her piles of unpaid bills. By the time USC lost to Dan Broderick's alma mater, Betty had told a total stranger that her ex-husband was "out to get her." "He was taking away it seemed like her soul," the woman recalled. As Betty described it, "she felt helpless, like she was in handcuffs.

Part of her identity had been taken away from her, and nothing she could do would make it any better." "I know that would never happen to me," the woman added. But still, she said, she saw some of herself in Betty a devout Catholic who had made her family her life. "If I put myself in that spot, that's called devastation. I just heard her side, but I felt for her. She was a victim." By AMY WALLACE TIMES STAFF WRITER Just two weeks before she was accused of murder, Betty Broderick sat watching a football game in the golf lounge of an exclusive local resort.

That October Sunday a heavy rain was falling on the tennis courts and horse trails that make Warner Springs Ranch a favorite of San Diego's oldest and wealthiest families. So, when the Notre Dame-USC football game began, several guests gathered around the television to watch. "My husband and children are back east at the game," Betty Broderick announced to the woman who sat down next to her. Then, with little introduction, the 42-year-old divorcee related her sad story about her divorce from prominent attorney Dan J- fa- Is JA It MfjM I SCIENCEMEDICINE Fish that grow up to four times normal size and other organisms owe their existence to the manipulation of genetic material. B2 EDITORIALS IRRIGATION: A loophole in a 1982 law allocating irrigation water lets big farms in California and Washington state get more than their fair share of cheap water.

B8 COMMENTARY ABORTION: San Diego Bishop Leo T. Maher seems to have forgotten the lesson of our Constitution and the lesson of history. Every public official takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, not the Vatican. They are elected to represent all of the voters in their districts, hot just the Catholic voters. B7 ON THE RECORD "My career was that of a wife and mother.

Being forced out of our marriage is like being thrown into a snake pit for me in terms of how I see my life and my happiness. Elisabeth Anno (Betty) Broderick in a 1987 court declaration. Bl LOTTERY RESULTS Nov. 18 Housing Panel Overpaid Clients on Utility Bills ByH.G. REZA TIMES STAFF WRITER The San Diego Housing Commission spent $1.2 million more for utility allowances than it should have over two years, money that, according to a federal official, could have been spent on other programs for the poor.

Only within the past few months has the commission reduced its payments to its clients for utilities, almost two years after an elderly man, who requested anonymity, began warning the agency about this and other questionable features in the federal housing program administered by the local commission. Overall, the commission paid out twice as much in utility allowances as it should have. "If they're having a problem with a simple matter such as that, that could indicate something about their performance and ability to administer," said Scott Reed, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He added that, if the overestimates are a symptom of management problems in the commission's Section 8 program, it could affect the number of housing vouchers the agency receives from HUD.

Under the Section 8 program, tenants pay 30 of their income for rent and the rest is subsidized with federal funds. In figuring out the tenant's portion of the rent, a monthly "standard utility allowance" is used to estimate the monthly utility bills and to calculate how much of a tenant's income can be used for rent. Commission officials said their change in the monthly payments was prompted by the receipt in 1988 of a 1987 study of energy use in the county. Before receiving the report, commission official Fran McHugh said, the agency lacked accurate data and was forced to make its Please see HOUSING, B5 San Diego At Large Anthony Perry is on vacation. Up Mother Goose Parade Was Hot Stuff The marchers in the traditional pre-Thanksgiving Mother Goose Parade in El Cajon can usually count on brisk November weather to keep them cool.

But not Sunday, as the temperature in El Cajon soared to 88 degrees. Above, a member of a band gets a cooling squirt of water during the parade. Youngsters, right, watching the parade were dressed as if it were the 4th of July. The official high in San Diego was 84, one degree shy of the record set in 1917. Forecasters said the persistent Santa Ana will weaken today, with slightly cooler weather.

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